Gender differences in coronary arteries and thoracic aorta calcification

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1220-1222

  Nasir, Khurram ^a,b   Roguin, Ariel ^b   Sarwar, Ammar ^a   Rumberger, John A ^c   Blumenthal, Roger S ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY DISEASE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THORACIC AORTA;

AORTIC DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; SEX FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34247363160     PISSN: 10795642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.107.140079     Document Type: Letter

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